Robert Fico was one of four original founders of the political party Direction–Social Democracy, known as SMER. This party was founded to oppose what he saw as a corrupt, ineffective political system. Previously he had been associated with the Party of the Democratic Left (Strana Demokratické Levice; SDL), which had emerged out of the now-defunct Communist Party.
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